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Conversations: Archive: 2015-2017 — 684 episodes
Best of 2017: Candice Fox
Best of 2017: David George Haskell
Best of 2017: Michael Adams
Best of 2017: Mary-Rose MacColl
Best of 2017: Daniel Kish
Best of 2017: Jimmy Webb
Graham Long and the 'quantum of compassion'
Turning to Beijing: Australia's future in the new Asia
Wild and full of longing: Australia's definitive pop anthems
The struggle and the strife behind Steven Bradbury's race to Salt Lake City
Horses: a story collection
Love and family and Asperger's: Tony Attwood
For better and for worse: becoming my wife’s carer
The man behind the legend of 'Eternity'
The morality of robots: Genevieve Bell's predictions for the future of AI
Reinventing Susan: a study in survival
Helen Garner at 75: still asking, what powers the human heart?
Nelson Mandela's archivist and the failings of South Africa
Fabulous Ada Delroy: serpentine dancer and vaudevillian
Kevin Sheedy's fifty years in AFL
Bernard Fanning's Brisbane
How Pixar became a creative powerhouse
Tony Martin and the comedy of suburbia
Nutritionist Rosemary Stanton: breaking from the Brethren
How friendly were the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne?
Fishing in Eden
A dynasty divided: the tragedy behind the Bradman of billiards
The boy from Port Pirie who guided the Bee Gees to global fame
The story of Australian soccer, from ethnic clubs to the A-League
Phoenix of the working-class: Beatrix Campbell and the changing face of Britain
How the ocean liner changed the world
Drawing magic from life and landscapes: Alison Lester
The war of hearts and minds: Australia's Special Forces in Afghanistan
Unlocking the secret life of Amelia
Irish novelist Marian Keyes
A mid-life love story which all changed, one morning in Lisbon
Kayaking Sydney’s Harbour
The boxer puppy and the bird of prey
Seeing the world through a movie camera’s eye
The mission of a flying midwife
Masha Gessen: what the US can learn from Russia
2017 Man Booker Prize winner George Saunders
The strange life of the twitcher
Ears wide open: master field recordist Chris Watson
Friedrich and Flanagan: the con-man and his ghostwriter
Acts of valour and the cost of bravery
Times of horror and grace: a newsman's 40-year career
Journalism rescued Hugh Riminton from a troubled adolescence
The strange reality of life with severe OCD
Reconstructing a life after being diagnosed with bipolar disorder
Leaping lexicons: David Astle and the joy of words
Inside The Family, the bizarre and brutal Australian cult
Brylcreem, beehives and Devils on Horseback: the decade which changed Australia
The death of a neighbour became Poe Ballantine's obsession
The mystery of Lasseter's Reef: greed, hardship and hope
Becoming Eddie Ayres
A daughter's drowning sent a family on wildly different paths
Engineering myself: Mark Lesek and his bionic arm
Australia's Romani Gypsies
The former NSW Police detective who turned to crime (fiction)
The politics of poker machines in Australia's poorest state
How Alexei Sayle blew up Britain's comedy scene
The history of libraries from before stone tablets, to printed books
Treasures, trash and synchronicity: adventures in archaeology
The Antarctic voyage which helped end a decade of silence
Utopia, now? A radical rethinking of work, wealth and freedom
Engineering a way to find meaningful work for young people
The girl from Mount Druitt who became a remarkable comedy voice
How the Safe Schools Program began an ideological firestorm
The call of the road: how one woman took on the trucking world
Why a Buddhist nun found her way to death row
From combat wounds, to shark attacks, to human error: a life in emergency medicine
The boy who grew up on a junk and became a theatrical powerhouse
Tim Rogers and his struggles to quell his mind
Bernie McKay helped Australia kick its smoking habit
Robert Fisk: life as a war correspondent
How a former drinking mate was unmasked as serial murderer
The sexcapades and murders of the emperor Nero
The stories told to Lindy Chamberlain, in more than 20,000 letters
What is fake news? Trump, Pizzagate and dumpsters on fire
The rise and fall of the East India Company
Bad Behaviour: memories of bullying and boarding school
The cost of denying death
After total amnesia, rebuilding an identity
The aerial view: how Angus Houston took to the skies
Hannah Kent and the Good People of Ireland
The snake man of La Perouse
The pirates of Somalia
Lily Brett's portrait of New York
A history of two rascals: Prince Alfred and his assassin
Listening to trees: nature's magnificent networkers
The scorpion, the earth's most ancient, deadly creature
Richard Roxburgh: a resume of rogues
Making a good life in the aftermath of violence: Miroslav Volf
John Maclean's 25-year journey to walk again
Being raised as 'daughter number five' shaped Mei Fong's life
How the daughter of a Hindu brain surgeon made her mark on Guantanamo Bay
An expedition to a Eastern Antarctica turned into a fight for survival
Where inmates make the rules: Bolivia's cocaine-fuelled San Pedro prison
Mel Jacob: when my husband went to prison
Rugby League's greatest ever grand final upset
From Winston Churchill's waiter to anaesthetist in Australia
Etgar Keret's seven good years
How to spot a psychopath and toxic people
The world's most puzzling riddles
Fighting the wars of others: mercenaries and private armies
Beyond the canvas: the vivid, bohemian world of the Pre-Raphaelites
How a young physicist witnessed some of the most dramatic scenes of WWII
Michael Robotham's fiction of fear: how true crime informs a bestseller's work
Great Barrier Reef tales: seafarers, scientists and castaways
Making mischief: the invention of Old Tom, Mr Chicken and Leigh Hobbs
A criminal psychologist's fall from grace
Into the deep, cool blue: the fine line between life and death while freediving
Driving while female: the defiance of Manal Al-Sharif
Rhoda Roberts: holding onto family
How Allan Langer and the Gospel of Matthew shaped a childhood
The charlatan who mesmerised gold-rush era Australia
Linda Burney on tracing her family, and making history
Sami Shah asks what Islam looks like in Australia
Ten billion rabbits
Musician Jen Cloher's rites of passage
Unfinished business: toward national pride without prejudice
Coal vs coral: plunging into Australia's climate wars
The greatest escape
Behind the cake and the rain: the life of Jimmy Webb
The lessons of Maralinga
Tiger Moths, textbooks and the joys of flight
A good daughter defines her faith for herself
Terrible treasure: 75 000 convict stories housed in a Hobart basement
Songs of darkness with Brian Ritchie
Workplace bullying: recognising and surviving it
How a child became the primary carer for her family
The unexpected history of artists' paints
How a father brought home the Vietnam War
Literacy's power to transform: Jack Beetson's story
The bond between two alpine climbers which nearly killed them
What happens to us while we're under anaesthesia?
The operation which changed everything for a girl from Wollongong in 1967
Dangerous habits and wild ways: why substance use is different for women
The mysteries of the Humpback whale — the ocean's gentle giant
Mortifying Tales: Part 2
Mortifying Tales: Part 1
Unlocking the meaning of Stonehenge and other ancient memory storehouses
Operating on the brink: the truth about brain surgery
Bill Hayes' unexpected later-in-life love story, set in New York City
How to resist a military junta: the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo
The grief which haunted President Lincoln
How Hitler used heroin and methamphetamines to fuel the Third Reich
A nurse’s tale: bedpans, bombs and everyday kindness
The rise and fall of Australia's Greek cafés and milk bars
The strange reality of life with severe OCD
A revolutionary idea to stop good food going to waste
Peering into the secret society of dumpster divers
A powerful journalistic force: Mark Colvin
Journalist Mark Colvin reveals the secrets of his father's life as a senior British spy
Daniel Kish: using sound to free the blind
A home invasion in Kenya and a new chapter in one teacher's life
Crime reporter Paula Doneman on chasing down outlaws
Former Islamist Maajid Nawaz and his challenge to extremism
Jenevieve Chang: searching for home via Shanghai burlesque
Gail Bell: unearthing the sad truth of her family's long-held secrets
Mary-Rose MacColl on betrayal, motherhood and letting go of secrets
The delicate and deadly world of jellyfish: from Bazinga to Shiraz
James Rebanks and the shepherd's life
Archaeologist Bob Hudson on Myanmar's ancient civilisation of Bagan
Mia Freedman: my imperfect life
John Safran: going rogue with Australian extremists
Historian Paul Ham and the bloody futility of WWI's Battle of Passchendaele
Liz Gilbert on facing fear and finding creativity
Australia's fear of abandonment: Allan Gyngell on foreign policy
Frank Bowden and his everyday battles with infectious diseases
Father Paul Kelly: his fight to overturn the 'gay panic' law
Go-Betweens co-founder Robert Forster introduces 'adult-pop'
American music legend Darlene Love
My savage self: how Miriam Lancewood survived six years in the New Zealand wilderness
Dr Alan Duffy is chasing the mysteries of dark matter through space and time
Lapeka 'Pekx' Nanai: world champion blind powerlifter
Louise Williams: the real life story of "The Great Escape"
Brian J. O'Brien on studying the moon and teaching astronauts
Lisa Peberdy: the 'accidental midwife'
Neil Gaiman retells classic Norse mythology
Mark Cross: changing minds on mental health care
Robert Raven: the arachnologist with a fear of spiders
Decca Aitkenhead: love, loss and survival
Tim Smit: creating the Eden Project
Brian Greene: helping the world make sense of String Theory
Sarah Brooker: the 'lucky' car accident which changed her life
Scientists on mapping galaxies, black holes, and divorce
Geologist Gav Dear's music and misadventures
Businessman David Pescud on sailing beyond disability
The powerful impact of gut health on our bodies and brains: Giulia Enders
Candice Fox: how to raise a crime writer
Caroline Baum: the intensity of life as an 'only'
Cartoonist and artist Bill Leak on a life-changing accident (2009)
Thomas Frank asks how America's Democrats got it so wrong
Andrew Harper: walking Australia's deserts
Joanne McCarthy: the reporter who sparked a Royal Commission
Charles Thompson IV, aka Pixies front man, Black Francis
Thordis Elva and Tom Stranger speak about rape as a survivor and a perpetrator
Snail tales
Kumi Taguchi: daughter and journalist
Stephen Davis: life as an international peace negotiator
Malachy Tallack: around the world in search of home
The Victorian-era matricide case which fascinates Kate Summerscale
Mei Fong on China's one-child policy: its callous implementation and troubling aftermath
Irish novelist Paedar O'Guilin weaves old myths into startling new stories
Alone With You story collection
Josh Richards plans to live on Mars by 2027
Who were the Romans? Mythbusting life in the ancient Empire
Revolutionary plastic surgeon Archibald McIndoe, his RAF 'Guinea Pigs', and their village
Jack Hoysted with the true story of Chow Hayes, Australia's first gangster
Corey Allen: making a difference with more personal urban policing
How Helen Razer blazed away a broken heart: 100 dates in a year
Why school teacher Gabbie Stroud loved and left her career
A severe spinal injury could not crush Dinesh Palipana's drive to become a doctor
The boy from the Congo who became an Australian playwright: Future D. Fidel
Australia's gay hate crimes: Duncan McNab
Forgotten feast: John Newton on the abundance of Australia's native foods
The man who saved a million brains: Creswell Eastman's pioneering work with iodine deficiency disorder
Biologist Tim Low describes another way of understanding Australia's plants and animals
Rebecca Huntley: Still Lucky
Paula Constant - Walking the Sahara: Part 2
Paula Constant's epic walk across the Sahara Desert: Part 1
Masha Gessen on voicing dissent in Russia
Neurobiologist Justin Marshall investigates the eyes of fish
A cosmic tour of our solar system and beyond
Kylie Jones: saying goodbye to my husband, after he became a transgender woman
Novelist Kate Forsyth on the dark and violent origins of beloved fairy tales
Tim Ferguson: why comedy is not just for laughs
Christine Bryden is defying and re-defining dementia
Alan Alda on bringing science to the stage
Gregory Smith's re-introduction to the world
Author Jeanette Winterson on making peace with the past
Exploring Byzantium, the world of Ghost Empire: Scott Stephens with Richard Fidler
Julee-Anne Bell on seeing with sonar
Kevin O'Hare's life in dance: from commanding the spotlight, to directing The Royal Ballet
Mireille Juchau on her grandmother's escape from Nazi Germany
Egyptologist Melanie Pitkin: unearthing the everyday lives of Ancient Egyptians
Carmel O'Brien: on the frontline of domestic violence
Ross McKenzie: the role of plants in animal deaths and disease
Shipwreck survivor Michael Doleman
Stan Grant's Australian dream
Mapping the miniscule: fly scientist Christine Lambkin
A late reunion: Susannah McFarlane and her mother Robin Leuba
Jeff Kennett on the most important work of his life
Horses: a story collection
Bill Bailey: seriously funny amateur naturalist
Madeleine O'Dea: the rise of new China's subversive artists
John Cann the snake man
Jon Ronson: what it's like to be publicly shamed
Jessica Grisham takes us inside Obsessive Compulsive Disorders
Nutritionist Rosemary Stanton on finding life outside a religious sect
Mary Norris: The New Yorker's queen of commas
Mark Tedeschi on the man who fought for justice at Myall Creek
Dick Braithwaite on coming to terms with his father's history
Birds, bees and intelligent machines
Paul Stevenson's act of conscience: exposing Australia's detention centres on Nauru
Susan Duncan: stories, secrets and a study in reinvention
An unstoppable journalistic force: PM presenter Mark Colvin
Journalist Mark Colvin reveals the secrets of his father's life as a senior British spy
Graham Long and Wayside: the perfect fit
Investigative journalist Charles Lewis and the price of the US presidency
Cate Kennedy on her year in Vanuatu
Toby Walsh and Bruce Postle
Historian Paul Ham and the bloody futility of WWI's Battle of Passchendaele
Bruce Munday: if these (dry-stone) walls could talk
Martin McKenna's true story of living with street dogs
Shushma Malik: Ancient Rome's most loved and despised emperor, Nero
Fred Smith: the musical diplomat
Coral biologist Charlie Veron: the rise and fall of the Great Barrier Reef
The evolution of the Great Barrier Reef's first scientist, Charlie Veron
Liz Tynan on the lessons of Maralinga
Singer-songwriter Jen Cloher's rites of passage
Pip Courtney: behind the smile and the Akubra
Craig Lawler: the bushrangers of New South Wales
The life of broadcaster Amanda Keller
Greg de Moore: lithium, the penicillin of mental health
Linda Burney on tracing her family and making history
Richard King on the freedom of speech and the freedom to offend
Vasily Sukhomlinsky: educating the heart, head and hands
Tim Winton on firearms, the sea, and twists of fate
Matthew Thompson: Christopher 'Badne$$' Binse's life of crime
David Walliams: sketching a career in comedy
Rhoda Roberts: holding onto family
Waleed Aly: out of the box
Hannah Kent and the Good People of Ireland
Ancient historian Louise Pryke on the scorpion - myths, mysteries and survival
Investigating Scientology in Australia: Steve Cannane
Ben Goldacre: fighting bad science
Live Stories Vol. 4 - Tales from the Territory
Bunker Roy and Paul Bennett
Felicity Kendal: a life in the spotlight
Tim Ferguson: why comedy is not just for laughs
Mel Jacob's life was turned upside down when her husband was sent to jail
Finding home: Saroo Brierley's incredible search for his Indian family
How Alexei Sayle blew up Britain's comedy scene
Buzzfeed Australia's Mark Di Stefano follows the 2016 election campaign trail
Artist Christina Henri's memorial for female convicts
A C Grayling's theory of genius
Robert Forster tells the Forster-McLennan story
Anthony Albanese: Camperdown son, Labor man
The last eagle hunters of Mongolia through the lens of Palani Mohan
Sex and death are at the centre of Krissy Kneen's recent writing
Kate Forsyth reimagines centuries-old stories
Stephen Dando Collins on 'hero-maker' Paul Brickhill, 'Dam Busters' and 'Great Escape' writer
Philippe Sands: facing the horror of the Holocaust
Lois and Juris Greste on the 400 days of Peter's imprisonment
Joanna Rakoff's connection with reclusive author J.D. Salinger
Antonia Hayes: confronting shaken baby syndrome
Alex Braczkowski and the leopards of Mumbai
Great Australian homicide detective Ron Iddles
John Maclean's determination to walk again
Physicist Jim Al-Khalili unlocks science's trickiest conundrums
Battle of Long Tan Veterans Allen May and John Hesslewood
The science behind Lisa Genova's fiction
Live Stories Volume 10: Under the Microscope
Matthew Thompson on Australia's most notorious criminal Christopher 'Badne$$' Binse
Senator Barry O'Sullivan's surprising path to politics
Renee Gracie races V8 supercars
Jeffery Renard Allen's American stories
Liz Tynan on the secret history of Maralinga
Larry Writer with the story of Australia at the 1936 'Nazi' Olympics
Allan Behm on the art of the political Chief of Staff
Maxine Beneba Clarke: growing up black in white Australia
Tim Page's war: the photographer who made us see Vietnam
Alana Valentine on Lindy's letters of blame, hate - and apology
Mike Carlton on the survival of HMAS Australia II
Joe Geia: Aboriginal protest and the power of song
How Bernie McKay helped Australia kick its smoking habit
Aleksander Hemon on love, loss and Sarajevo
Cinematographer Pieter de Vries: eyes of the world
Shannon Garner's surrogate pregnancy
Norman Doidge believes our 'plastic' brains can heal themselves
Gregory Smith's survival instinct
Warren Brown on the mystery of Lasseter's Reef
Helen Macdonald: grief and a hawk
Nick Richardson on football in wartime
Danielle Clode on a rare partnership between man and killer whale
Alain de Botton questions what we think we know about love
The rise and rise of Donald Trump
Soa 'The Hulk' Palelei fights his way to a better life
Julee-Anne Bell's vision is sound
Jaky Troy: awakening Australia's sleeping languages
Karen Menzies' hidden Aboriginal heritage
Bruce Pascoe on pre-colonial Aboriginal agriculture
Lesley and Tammy Williams: reclaiming stolen Aboriginal wages
Turia Pitt is a survivor
Alan Duffy
Roger Rogerson: crimes and punishment
Cory Taylor on dying for beginners
The great big life of Eoin Cameron
Christos Tsiolkas writes along fracture lines
Triple-threat Ursula Yovich: singer, actor, playwright
Lynne Kelly: unlocking ancient memory storehouses
James Brown and the decisions that lead to war
Jill Lepore reveals Wonder Woman's secret history
Republican Jane Caro's hero - Queen Elizabeth I
Elspeth Muir: our wasted youth
Philip Bacon and the beautiful business of art
Bernard Wood's history of human evolution
Junot Diaz on love, infidelity and history's shadow
Stephen and Sally Damiani: saving Massimo
Annabelle Brayley honours the Australian nurses of the Vietnam War
Tony Atkinson: the palace, the prime minister and my patients
Educator Jack Beetson on surpassing expectations
Elisa Black: anxiety and me
Jane Eales on the enduring mystery of her mother
Geoff Corbett is a drug and alcohol counsellor working with young people
Adam Spencer champions numbers
James Rebanks and the shepherd's life
Darryl Jones: birds and the city
Ian Heads with the best story of his sports journalism career
Tim Elliott on his father - untangling love from hate
Comedian Jean Kittson is tackling the taboos of menopause
The race against Vietnam's human traffickers
Lily Brett's portrait of New York
Julian Baggini explores free will and responsibility
Peter Frankopan on re-mapping the world
Jeanette Winterson: a storyteller's tale
Kumi Taguchi's life in two cultures
How ants create superorganisms
Helen Castor tells Joan of Arc's story
Dennis McIntosh's story: part two
Dennis McIntosh's story: part one
Luke Williams: to the edge of crystal meth addiction and back
Cie Cie Nguyen's Saigon - before and after the fall
Claire Dunn answered the call of the wild
Frank Bowden and his everyday battles with infectious diseases
Scientist Michael Stoddart examines the importance of smell and scent
Sarah Ferguson with the uncut version of The Killing Season
The story of Australia's Greek cafes and milk bars
Andrew Solomon: parenting exceptional children
Yassmin Abdel-Magied's unapologetically big life
Saga Land: Part 2
Saga Land: Part 1
Les Carlyon: voices from the Great War
Midwife Lisa Peberdy and the business of everyday miracles
Live Stories Volume 10: Under the Microscope
The helping urge of Red Cross worker Bob Handby
Alone With You story collection
Kate Grenville on meeting her mother through story
Dignifying body donation
Craig Franklin is finding the secrets to life in extreme climates
Dick Adams
Christine Bryden is defying and re-defining dementia
Remembering Bob Ellis
Great Australian swindler, Mrs Livesey - 8 marriages 40 aliases and a prolific fraudster
Publisher Nigel Newton on harnessing the Harry Potter effect
Pyotr Patrushev's daring escape from the Soviet Union
Trevor Jordan: adoption and the ethics of secrets
Wendy James' Darwin: transformed by disaster
Edmund Capon's Chinese affair
Inside the bear's den
Bill Lawson on engineering a fix for youth unemployment
Can science fiction work in the real world?
The many lives of Jim Everett
Author Richard Flanagan on Syria's great exodus
Vrasidas Karalis asks what has become of contemporary Greece
Somali-born Leila Abukar spent her teenage years in refugee camps
The rise and ruin of Russia's Romanov dynasty
Alan Alda on bringing science to the stage
Mark Cross: changing minds and normalising mental health care
Showman Fred Brophy's life inside the boxing tent
John Zeleznikow and Cafe Scheherazade
How Ruth Clare's father brought home his Vietnam war
Elizabeth Gilbert's keys to a big, creative life
Andrew Harper: walking Australia's deserts
Musicians Vic Simms and Luke Peacock bring new life to 'The Loner'
The science of Lisa Genova's fiction
Josh Richards wants a one-way ticket to Mars
Masha Gessen on voicing dissent in Russia
Eoin Cameron: stepping away from the microphone
Muttaburra Stories: Conversations in the shearing shed
Rayya Elias: rising up from addiction and life on the streets of New York
Military strategist David Kilcullen: why the war on terror has failed
Andrew Denton asks, can Australia legislate for better death?
Israeli writer Etgar Keret's seven good years
Simon Winchester's Pacific tales
Truck driver Heather Jones and the call of the road
Peter Coghlan: surviving locked-in syndrome
The adventures of Tim Cope: Part 2
The adventures of Tim Cope: Part 1
A lion named Christian: Anthony 'Ace' Bourke and John Rendall
Loren O'Keeffe put the search for her missing brother at the centre of her life
Why school teacher Gabbie Stroud loved and left her career
Chris Murphy on the making of INXS
Judy Sharp and the remarkable rise of Laser Beak Man
Spotlight on Julia Zemiro
Bruce White's 63 years of beekeeping
Amanda McClelland: nursing communities to health after disaster
John Howard: guns, politics and power
Bruce Pascoe on the complex question of Aboriginal agriculture
The story of Stan 'The Man' Smith, one of Australia's most feared gangsters
Stan Grant's long road to recognition
Former Islamist Maajid Nawaz and his challenge to extremism
Kate Forsyth on the tangled roots of fairytales
Brian Freeman: uncovering the lost battlefield of Kokoda
Pip Courtney: bearing witness to country Australia
Naomi Speakman on the splendour and terror of medieval Europe
Kylie Bullo: returning orangutans to the wild
Live Stories Vol. 9 — Bad Behaviour
Best of 2015: Live Stories Volume 8 'Faking It'.
Best of 2015: Magda Szubanski
Best of 2015: Elizabeth Gilbert
Best of 2015: the Fine Cotton Affair
Deborah MacMillan: love, art, and a ballet legacy
Mary Norris: The New Yorker's queen of commas
How Creswell Eastman saved a million brains
RAF Pilot Frank Dell's story of survival in Nazi occupied Holland
The life of broadcaster Amanda Keller
Bill Hauritz: creating a folk-music institution
Pip Courtney: behind the smile and the Akubra
Novelist Kate Forsyth: bringing centuries-old stories to new readers
Curious minds: Robyn Williams, Fran Kelly, Phillip Adams
David Astle: the world's most puzzling riddles
Indigenous storyteller Bob Randall
Stage and screen actor Brenda Blethyn
Ian Brown: raising his profoundly disabled son Walker
Marcus Westbury: returning cities to their people
Jessica Grisham: helping hoarders let go
Glenn MacFadyen's astonishing ocean voyage
Photographer Palani Mohan captures the eagle hunters of Mongolia
Exploring Judy Waugh's trench art collection
Louise Williams: Uncle John's audacious escape from Stalag Luft III
Frank Bongiorno: revisiting 1980s Australia
Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch: 3000 years of Christian history in an hour
Paul Kelly on the Whitlam dismissal: a deeper understanding
Mark Tedeschi: the crime that shocked the nation
Barbara Heath: making new jewellery from old stories
Jaky Troy: awakening Australia's sleeping languages
Ken and Patricia Taylor tell the true story behind the film 'Argo'
Michael Ware on the creator of IS, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
Jenni Brammall on opals, fossils and living in Lightning Ridge
Larry Writer: Australia at the infamous 'Nazi' Olympics of 1936
Cinematographer Michael Dillon's adventures on the roof of the world
Shannon Logan's lucky life: from the tennis circuit to the record store
Baby Love author Robin Barker
Martin McKenna's true story of living with street dogs
Cheryl Koenig's family was founded on love, war and coincidence
Justice Roslyn Atkinson: the view from the bench
Hellen Nadolu's long road to independence
Music Jamboree 2015: Robert Forster
Magda Szubanski: my father, the assassin
Matt Condon on the fall of 'The Joke'
Stephen Knight: using characters from myth to better understand ourselves
Mental Health Week: Jeff Kennett
Mental Health Week: Jo Cook
Mental Health Week: Sandy McFarlane
Mental Health Week: Patrick McGorry
Mental Health Week: Jayne Newling
Chris Sheedy: measuring the world's extremes
Lesley and Tammy Williams: reclaiming stolen Aboriginal wages
The making of Jane Caro
Richard Arculus: what lies beneath
Stephen FitzGerald: Australia's vital relationship with China
Sussan Ley: Federal Minister for Health and Minister for Sport
Home is at the heart of French chef Stephane Reynaud's cuisine
George Megalogenis asks: can Australia continue its winning streak?
Sheila Fitzpatrick: the men behind Soviet dictator Josef Stalin
Antonia Hayes: confronting shaken baby syndrome
Eva Cox: a formidable voice for outsiders
Greg Fleet comes clean
Satyajit Das and the question of debt
Steve Harris with the story of Tasmania's longest serving hangman
John Brewster Jones: inside The Angels
Nick Bennett: face to face with violence on the Black Cat Track
Cutler John Hounslow-Robinson: lessons from the forge
Joanne Cook on suffering and recovering from anorexia in mid-life
Iain McCalman: Great Barrier Reef stories
Leanne Togher: the art and science of speech pathology
Jon Ronson: public shaming in the digital age
Danielle Clode on a rare partnership between man and killer whale
Richard Glover survived a strange upbringing
Miroslav Volf: a good life in the aftermath of violence
Philosopher and skeptic A C Grayling
Anthony Ryan: inspiring the corporate world to work with the poor
Stuart Kells with the true story of Penguin
Spotlight on Julia Zemiro
Dr Bryan Fry's venomous career
Paul Grundy: leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses
Pioneering underwater filmmaker Valerie Taylor: making friends with sharks
Dr Munjed Al Muderis restores mobility with robotic limbs
Helen Razer likes to contradict popular opinion
Reverend Bill Crews has put his unique stamp on the life of Sydney
Alastair Blanshard on the ancients of Rome and Greece
Oncologist Ranjana Srivastava: telling the truth about life and death
Paul Dyer, co-founder of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Carl Woerndle's business was ruined by a random cyber attack
Historian Jane Connors on Royal visits to Australia
Sandy Mackinnon's unlikely voyage through the canals of Europe
Mark MacLean: a personal inventory in five boxes
Amanda McClelland: nursing communities to health after disaster
Dr Iona Heath: too much medicine is making us sick
How a prison photo led Eleanor Limprecht to a long-held family secret
Margaret Drabble: jigsaws, writing, love and other puzzles
Middle East correspondent Martin Chulov reports from inside IS and Syria
Rick Searle: adventures of aviation hero Patrick Gordon Taylor
Bruce White on 62 years as a beekeeper
Historian Lynette Silver has uncovered notorious military fakes and frauds
Leah Cotterell and the pleasure of sad songs
Cinematographer Michael Dillon's adventures on the roof of the world
Bruce Munday: if these (dry-stone) walls could talk
Saeed Fassaie on revolution and war in Iran
Former inmate Brett Collins defends the rights of prisoners
Joe Geia: Aboriginal protest and the power of song
Senator Barry O'Sullivan's surprising path to politics
Larry Writer: Australia at the infamous 'Nazi' Olympics of 1936
Tiger handler Giles Clark thinks he has the best job in the world
Jeremy Oxley and Mary Oxley Griffiths: love and the Sunnyboy
Shannon Logan's lucky life: from the tennis court to the record store
Allan Behm on the art of the political Chief of Staff
Garth Callender: the Australian Army's first serious casualty of the Iraq war
Writer Susan Johnson was living in Paris during the attack on French satirical magazine, 'Charlie Hebdo'
Kay Danes was held in a Lao jail for almost a year
Director Lindy Hume's life in music
Baby Love author Robin Barker: families, fiction, feminism and the pleasures of the sea
Maritime historian Chris Frame: how the ocean liner changed the world
Jenni Brammall on opals, fossils and living in Lightning Ridge
Economics was an unlikely choice of career for Ross Gittins
Sam Cutler tour-managed some of rock's biggest names
Mike Lanza wants to give neighbourhoods back to children
Jerry Grayson: most decorated peacetime naval pilot
Bryony Kimmings makes theatre about the things that make us uncomfortable
Ramona Koval's seach for the truth in her family story
Michael Edwards is the perfume expert's expert
Simon Winchester: China through the eyes of eccentric genius Joseph Needham
Kirsty de Vallance: prison's effect on family life
Victor is one of the most successful figures in international drag racing
Paul Keating talks modern political leadership
Billy Bragg's songwriting roots - entwined in England's folk and punk movements
Sheila Given is passionate and outspoken about what makes older people tick
Eoin Cameron's journey through life
Alison survived a brutally vicious attack some years ago
Pyotr Patrushev's escape from the Soviet Union
Crime writer Val McDermid on the possibility of an independent Scotland
Parasitologist Paul Prociv infected himself to further his research
The remarkable story of George Finch, mountaineer and brilliant chemist
Former National Party director Paul Davey on the 'Joh for PM' campaign
Liz Byrski looks into the WW2's Guinea Pigs and the women who nursed them
Linda Jaivin's 35 year experience of China
Tim Fischer on Australia's greatest military leader, General John Monash
Tori Spooner describes her life with synaesthesia
Anna Broinowski: inside the North Korean film industry
Alan Cumming on being his brutal father's son
There's a fascinating story behind Australia's unofficial national anthem, 'Waltzing Matilda'
Norman Doidge believes our 'plastic' brains can heal themselves
David Walliams' journey from Little Britain to writing for children
Helen Macdonald on Britain's fiercest birds of prey
Nick Davies uncovered a hidden network of corruption inside UK newspapers
Michael Stoddart: the importance of smell and scent
Janet Lane and Ros Sexton's quest to save the Waler Horse
Dr John Gerrard worked in Ebola-affected Sierra Leone for six weeks
Kate Fritzon studies the motivations of people who set fires
Vrasidas Karalis decries the cutural and political climate of contemporary Greece
Carmel Harrington knows the personal cost of sleep disorders
Greenpeace's Peter Willcox captained the Rainbow Warrior
David Christian's Big History approach to the story of our universe
Kate Grenville sees her mother anew since writing her life story
Geoff Corbett is a drug and alcohol counsellor working with young people
Peter Hoysted unravels the true tale of the Fine Cotton fiasco
Somali-born Leila Abukar spent her teenage years in refugee camps
Archaeologist Stephen Bourke: unearthing the seat of civilisation in Pella, Jordan
Republican Jane Caro reveres the first Queen Elizabeth
Nigel Benn was known as 'The Dark Destroyer'
Mephisto: the only remaining WW1 German A7V tank
Susan Boyer weaves together little-known stories from the settlement of Sydney Cove
Stephen and Sally Damiani's scientific quest to save their son
Journalist Michael Ware was taken by IS, and survived
David Vann's sailing venture nearly destroyed him
Jane Eales' discovery about her mother's mysterious past
The distinctive songbirds of Australia
Stephen Dando-Collins on WWII's Operation Chowhound
Rebecca Starford on the complex world of high school bullying
Sex and death are at the centre of Krissy Kneen's recent writing
Alan Duffy is working to solve the mystery of Dark Matter
Tony Windsor describes what it takes to choose a government
Miranda Richmond Mouillot travelled to France to unearth a family mystery
Quentin Beresford describes the collapse of forestry giant Gunns Limited
Hank Harlow on the habits of bears
Michael Brosowski's work rescuing Vietnamese children and adults from exploitation
Kate Howarth's journey to the boardroom from a home for unwed mothers
Kooshyar Karimi faced many life and death decisions before fleeing Iran
The comic genius of Jennifer Saunders
Live Stories Vol. 5 - Tales of the Uncanny
Joanna Rakoff's connection with reclusive author J.D Salinger
Tennis legend Rod Laver
Musicians Vic Simms and Luke Peacock bring new life to 'The Loner'
Karen Hitchcock and the dilemma of ageing
Joan Trumpaeur Mulholland: stories from the Freedom Rides
Robert Wainwright traces the extraordinary life of Sheila Chisholm
Trudi-Ann Tierney: tales of making soap operas in Kabul
David Elliott: the farmer who discovered a dinosaur
Cate Kennedy on writing life and her year in Vanuatu
Ashley Ekins digs into the truth of those who served in WWI
Alastair Bonnett uncovers the world's secret spaces
Jane-Frances Kelly knows how to fix Australia's cities
Former Greens leader Bob Brown's unconventional path to politics
Helen Castor tells the story of Joan of Arc
Jill Lepore reveals Wonder Woman's secret history
Sally Padey: how to build your own zoo
John Lanchester lays bare the language of finance
Michele Gierck: navigating the maze of dementia with her mother
Terrence Holt: the author who became a doctor
Elizabeth Gilbert is guided in her life and writing by curiosity
Celia Lashlie on helping boys grow up
School chaplain Clara Jobson survived a violent upbringing
Boxer Bianca Elmir: fighting cultural stereotypes
John Knowles' father took the family from rags to riches and back again
John 'Jethro' Thompson: life after the landmine
Baz Luhrmann: from humble beginnings to international acclaim
Helen Razer champions rational thinking
Corey Allen: making a difference with more personal urban policing
John Knowles' father was a Canadian cowboy (Part 1)
Robyn Arrowsmith: the women of WW2's bridal trains
Martin Amis: second generation literary lion
Kirsti Abbott on ants: 'tiny things that run the world'
Historian Alastair Blanshard: looking anew at the myths of ancient Greece and Rome
Janelle Chalmer brings great tenderness to her work as an embalmer
Bob Hawke at the Woodford Folk Festival
Mike Archer is trying to use DNA to bring back extinct species
Robert Hoge was born with a face even his mother took time to love
Loren O'Keeffe put the search for her missing brother at the centre of her life
Live Stories Vol. 8 — Faking It
Conversations returns for 2015